Materials Research Society (MRS) Spring Meeting
April 14, 2009: GCEP Managing Director, Richard Sassoon, gave a presentation about exergy and carbon analysis at the MRS Spring Meeting in San Francisco, CA. A GCEP research paper entitled, “Quantifying the Flow of Exergy and Carbon through the Natural and Human Systems” accompanied the talk. The abstract is available and the paper will be posted soon on the MRS site under "Symposium R." The data and flow charts from Dr. Sassoon’s presentation are available here.

Carbon Capture & Sequestration Public Workshops
March 5 - 6, 2009: GCEP Director Sally Benson gave a presentation about carbon capture and sequestration at workshops held in New York City (March 5) and Washington, DC (March 6). Open and free of charge to the general public, the workshops were hosted by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and Environmental Defense Fund and were co-sponsored by GCEP.

Professor Benson’s presentation titled “Carbon Dioxide Capture and Sequestration in Deep Geological Formations” and other talks from the workshop are available on the NRDC site.

China Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Study Tour
February 27, 2009: GCEP Director Sally Benson, a member of the U.S. steering committee for the World Resources Institute-sponsored China CCS Guidelines project, hosted CCS study tour members during their visit to Stanford University. Organized by WRI and Tsinghua University, the tour brought together a number of leading CCS and energy experts from China and the U.S, including Stanford professors Mark Zoback and David Victor. Professor Benson provided the group with an overview of GCEP’s CCS research efforts, along with a tour of labs on campus working on saline storage, carbon dioxide capture (systems modeling) and the tracking the world-wide development of CCS. A follow-up study tour to China will take place in June. For more information about this effort, please visit the WRI site.